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Anthony Bloom, *Beginning To Pray* (Paulist,
1979)
George Buttrick, *Prayer* (Abingdon, 1942)
Judson Cornwall, *Praying the Scriptures*
(Creation House, 1990)
Richard Foster, *Prayer: Finding the Heart's True
Home* (Harper, 1992)
Romano Guardini, *Prayer In Practice* (Pantheon,
1957)
Jeanne Guyon, *Experiencing God Through Prayer*
(Whitaker, 1984)
David Hansen, *Long Wandering Prayer* (Bible
Reading Fellowship)
Jane Holloway, *Prayer For Amateurs* (Hodder
& Stoughton)
Timothy Jones, *The Art of Prayer* (Ballantine,
1997)
Lyn Klug, *Praying : Meeting God In Daily Life*
(Augsburg Fortress, 1995)
Kenneth Leech, *True Prayer* (Harper, 1980)
C.S. Lewis, *Letters To Malcolm* (Harcourt Brace,
1964)
Leanne Payne, *Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear
God's Voice* (Baker)
Bjorn Pedersen, *Face To Face With God In Your Church
: Establishing A Prayer Ministry* (Augsburg, 1995)
M. Basil Pennington, *Centering Prayer* (Image,
1980)
Joseph Schmidt, *Praying Our Experiences* (St.
Mary's Press, 1989)
Kenneth Swanson, *Uncommon Prayer: Approaching
Intimacy With God* (Ballantine, 1987)
Theresa of Avila, *The Interior Castle* (Paulist,
1979)
R.A. Torrey, *The Power Of Prayer* (Zondervan,
1955)
Alvin VanderGriend w. Edith Bajema, *The Praying
Church Sourcebook* (Church Development Resources, 1997)
Norvene Vest, *Gathered In the Word : Praying the
Scripture in Small Groups* (Upper Room)
C. Peter Wagner, *Churches That Pray* (Regal,
1993)
Timothy Ware, ed., *The Art of Prayer: A Orthodox
Anthology* (Faber and Faber, 1966)
There's also a list of books to help you pray without ceasing.
Here are some good links to websites on prayer.
A good way to learn about Christian prayer practice is to set aside some time each week (say, an hour), and go down the list. Check the site out thoroughly, maybe even save or print some pages for further study. Keep doing this weekly discipline until you've visited each site. If you stop before that, you may not get the full picture.
Sample congregational prayer ministry pages on the Web :
Isaiah 65:24; Jeremiah 33:3; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Matthew 7:7, 21-22;
Mark 11:22-26; Luke 18:1-6; Luke 11:1-13; John 15:7,16;
Romans 8:26; Ephesians 6:18-19; Colossians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18;
James 5:16; 1 Peter 3:12; Revelation 8:3-4.
"God does not delay to hear our prayers because
He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He
may give us the more largely."
Anselm of Canterbury
"Tell God all that is in your heart, as one
unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear
friend. Tell God your troubles, that God may comfort you; tell
God your joys, that God may sober them; tell God your longings,
that God may purify them; tell God your dislikes, that God may
help you conquer them; talk to God of your temptations, that
God may shield you from them: show God the wounds of your
heart, that God may heal them. If you thus pour out all your
weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to
say. Talk out of the abundance of the heart, without
consideration say just what you think. Blessed are they who
attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God."
Francois Fenelon
"Prayers do shape the future in ways
different from what would have been the case had no prayers
been uttered. And this is because of the kind of God to
whom the prayers are spoken. .... God is open to taking new
directions and changing courses in view of the interaction
between God and people. Yet always in view will be God's
salvific will for all."
Terence Fretheim, 'Creating Space In the World For God',
in *A Primer On Prayer*, ed. Paul Sponheim (Fortress,
1988) p. 61. Emphasis is in the original.
Heaven is full of answers to
prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask.
Billy Graham
"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments
when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its
knees."
Victor Hugo
"The Third Petition of the Lord's Prayer is
repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention
of letting anyone's will be done but their own."
Aldous Huxley
"Think of prayer less as an activity for God and
more as an awareness of God. Seek to live in uninterrupted
awareness. Acknowledge His presence everywhere you go."
Max Lucado, Today's
Christian, November/December 2004
"Even if you did nothing in your meditation but
bring your heart back, and place it again in our Lord's
presence, though it went away again every time you brought it
back, your hour would be very well employed."
Francis deSales
"You will never learn how to pray until you are
moved enough to weep."
various
"The pursuit of a prayerful
life of simple love and discipline sets us in isolation from
and opposition to the mainstream, mammon-directed
culture in which we live. We become deserters from technocracy,
disaffiliating ourselves from its power, rejecting its false
values. To pray is to drop out in the most profound and
positive sense."
Kenneth Leech, *True Prayer* (Harper, 1980),
p.81
"Prayer is the breath of your life which gives
you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the
many signs which point out the way to a new land."
Henri Nouwen, *With Open Hands*
"What men usually ask of God when they pray is
that two and two not make four."
Unknown
"Prayer puts us on the potter's wheel, reshaping
us to be God's vessels. As we beg that God's will be done on
earth as it is in heaven, we present ourselves to God to do
it."
from *Churches That Make A Difference*, Olson / Unruh
/ Sider (Baker, 2002), p. 142
"God has instituted prayer so as to confer upon
his creatures the dignity of being causes."
Blaise Pascal
There is a place where thou canst touch the
eyes
Of blinded men to instant, perfect sight;
There is a place where thou canst say, "Arise"
To dying captives, bound in chains of night;
There is a place where thou canst reach the store
Of hoarded gold and free it for the Lord;
There is a place--upon some distant shore--
Where thou canst send the worker and the Word.
Where is that secret place--dost thou ask, "Where?"
O soul, it is the secret place of prayer!
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Learning to pray is the way Christians discover
how to speak. The primary language of the church is the way of
prayer -- because in prayer the practice and the language are
inseparable."
William Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas, *Where
Resident Aliens Live*, p. 42
"You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You
may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all
day."
Fredrik Wisloff, *I Believe In the Holy Spirit*
(Augsburg)
(Please, take your personal prayer requests tothis link.)
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